 On reaching the top of this siliceous mound, I looked into the perfectly circular basin, which gradually shelved down to the mouth of the pipe or crater in the centre, whence the water issued. This mouth lay about four or five feet "below the edge of...  Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809 - Page 143by Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1813 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 562 pages
...compared to that of the head of a cauliflower. On reaching the top of this siliceous mound, I looked into the perfectly circular basin,* which gradually shelved...nearly as possible seventeen feet distant from it on evenside ; the greatest difference in the distance not being more than a foot. The inside was not rugged,... | |
 | 1812 - 666 pages
...over with a most beautiful kind of efflorescence.' « On reaching the top of this mound, I looked into the perfectly circular basin*, which gradually shelved...issued. This mouth lay about four or five feet below thé edge of the basin, and proved, on my afterwards measuring it, to be as nearly as possible seventeen... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 pages
...compared to that of the head of a cauliflower. On reaching the top of this siliceous mound, I looked into the perfectly circular basin, which gradually shelved...in the centre, whence the water issued. This mouth layabout four or five feet below the edge of the basin, and proved, on my afterwards measuring it,... | |
 | 1812 - 1038 pages
...compared to that of the head of a cauliflower. On reaching the top of this eiliceons mound, I looked into the perfectly circular basin, which gradually shelved...crater in the centre, whence the water issued. This nicmili lay about four or five feet below the edge of the bason, and proved, on my afterwards measur,... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 708 pages
...which surrounded the other spring. pOn reaching the top of this mound, says the author, ' I looked into the perfectly circular basin, which gradually shelved down to the mouth of the pipe or crater in the centre.1 whence the water issued. This month lay about four or five feet below the edge of the basin,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1822 - 494 pages
...which you first arrive. " On reaching the top of this mound," says a certain traveller, " I looked into the perfectly circular basin, which gradually shelved down to the mouth of the pipe or crater whence the water issued. It was not possible now to enter the basin, for it was filled nearly to the... | |
 | John Foster - 1858 - 626 pages
...tubercles, and covered with a beautiful efflorescence. On reaching the top of this mound, I looked into the perfectly circular basin, which gradually shelved...or crater in the centre, whence the water issued. It was not possible to enter the basin, for it was filled nearly to the edge with water the most pellucid... | |
 | John Foster - Essays - 1858 - 624 pages
...tubercles, and covered with a beautiful efflorescence. On reaching the top of this mound, I looked into the perfectly circular basin, which gradually shelved...or crater in the centre, whence the water issued. It was not possible to enter the basin, for it was filled nearly to the edge with water the most pellucid... | |
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